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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by joshuakcockrell on Sunday June 26, 2016 @07:22PM (#11983310)
Quote from the CEO's blog[1]:

> I agree, it’s a little more inconvenient than before.... but for now we’re asking you to accept a little inconvenience for the sake of greatly enhanced security.

This gives people incentive to pick the shortest possible easiest to input password. Definitely not good for "greatly enhanced security".

[1] http://community.tradeking.com/members/bigdog/blogs/7546-a-w...

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by Vintila on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:57AM (#11984559)
Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security.

Shamelessly stolen from SE.

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by Shorel on Monday June 27, 2016 @01:48PM (#11987916)
This 'feature' comes at the expense of both.
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